1972, Wolvega
Living and working together in the Drents-Friese Wold
Presentation – Exhibition
2024 Marked Birds / with Joost Krijnen, Jesse Strikwerda / R.S.O.L / Deventer / curator: Ton Kruse >
2024 When something else takes over / with Northern shrikes Lanius borealis / Quebec, CA
2023 Collee / Martin Brandsma,Jan van der Til / with Staatsbosbeheer, Drents-Friese Wold >
2023 Dit is de grens (This is the Boundary) / with Samenwerk / curator: Xander Karskens / Coach house Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, Kerkpad 1, 6321 PX Wijlre and Garden Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, St Cunibertus Wahlwiller, Brunssummerheide, Museum Schat van Simpelveld, Marres Maastricht, Catharinakapel Lemiers, Re___GIO (Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre), Mariakapel Mingersborg, Spark Birds & the Loneliness of species Hedge House Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, Schunck Heerlen, Drents-Friese Wold, St Gertrudis Wijlre and various other sites >
2023 (8 – 27 aug) A Field Guide to Getting Lost / with Samenwerk / curators: Guus van Engelshoven and Rannilt Polt / Het Nieuwe Domein, Ligne 5, 6131 MT, Sittard
2022 Archives of absence, archives of presence – From the archives of absence, archives of presence / Stevender, Sibylle Eimermacher / Enter Artspace, Montanagade 27, DK-8000, Aarhus, Denemarken
2022 Archives of absence, archives of presence / Antwerp Art Weekend / BOOOOOKS, Sint- Vincentiusstraat 24, 2018, Antwerpen, België
2022 Verkeerd Begrepen / Martin Brandsma,Jan van der Til / Omstand, Arnhem >
2022 De verschillige blik / ARTisBOOK, Westerhavenstraat 14,9718 AL, Groningen >
2022 Hangwerk / Martin Brandsma,Jan van der Til / with Jan van der Til and Powerplustools, Marum / Nuweland Gallery, Buren 31, 8536 TH Oosterzee >
2020-2021 Boek XXXIX / with Jan van der Til / Facebook and Instagram / 2020-2021
2019 No Todo ~ Niet Alles, An exhibition in an archival box / curator: Inez Piso / with Annesas Appel, Ricardo Cardenas, Jimena Cruseri, Enric Farres Duran, Sibylle Eimermacher/Martin Brandsma, Jordi Ferreiro, Annet Frontzek, Ton Martens, Vibeke Mascini, Eva Parra, Martin La Roche, Rosa Sijben, Peter Spaans, Berkay Tuncay, Omar Vega Macotela, Robin Waart, Ulises Books Philadelphia, Mariken Wessels, Peter Vermeulen / Johan Deumens Archive, Westerdok 782, 1013 BV Amsterdam >
2019 Printing Plant Art Book Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery, Looiersgracht 60, 1016 VT Amsterdam
2018 Het Boek der Natuur / curator: Henk Woudsma / with Frans Baake, Sjoerd Buisman, Marinus van Dijke, Sibylle Eimermacher, Ingeborg Entrop, Hamish Fulton, Anne Geene, Hetty Huisman, Richard Long, Vibeke Mascini, Antoinette Nausikaa, Jan van der Til, David Tremlett, Hans de Vries, herman de vries, Hans Waanders, Luuk Wilmering / Week van het kunstenaarsboek (WKB18) ARTisBOOK en CBK, Trompsingel 27a, 9724 DA Groningen >
2018 B is for bird / curator: Hanne Hagenaars / with Daniëlle van Ark, Anne van As, Pieter Bijwaard, Martin Brandsma, Johan Claassen, Lisa Couwenbergh, Driessens & Verstappen, Daan van Golden, Dolf Henkes, David Jablonowski, Martijn de Jonge, Wouter Klein Velderman, Paul Kooiker, Eva Kot’átková, Anaïs López, Chaim van Luit, Kevin Simón Mancera, José María Sicilia, Claudia Sola, Mirjam Somers, Dieuwke Spaans, S. H. W. van Trigt, Julie van der Vaart, Emo Verkerk, Mirjana Vrbaski, Johan Marinus de Vries, Nozeman en Christiaan Sepp / Museum Kranenburgh, Hoflaan 26, 1861 CR Bergen >
2018 Archives of absence, archives of presence / with Sibylle Eimermacher and MYOL, Holtingerveld / Deel 1: Galerie Block C, Deel 2: Galerie Block C, Westerhavenstraat 14a, 9718 AK Groningen, Deel 3: WKB18 and CBK, Trompsingel 27a, 9724 DA Groningen >
2018 Printing Plant Art Book Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery, Looiersgracht 60, 1016 VT Amsterdam
2018 Wiels Art Book Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Vorst, België
2017 BABE / Johan Deumens Gallery / Arnolfini Arts, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, Verenigd Koninkrijk
2017 Art Rotterdam / Johan Deumens Gallery / Van Nelle, Van Nelleweg 1, 3044 BC Rotterdam
2017 Speelveld / Performances with Sibylle Eimermacher and a Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor Doldersummerveld / Doldersummerveld and Museum Arnhem, Utrechtseweg 87, 6812 AA Arnhem
2017 Bird after Bird / curator: Veronika Sekules / with Suky Best, Patrick Haines, Jane Ivimey, Milo Newman, Nessie Stonebridge / GroundWork Gallery, 17 Purfleet St, King’s Lynn PE30 1ER, Verenigd Koninkrijk
2017 Künstlerbücher für Alles – Artists’ Books for Everything / Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Museum für Moderne Kunst Weserburg, Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Duitsland
2017 Handleiding voor fixaties / with L. excubitor Eesveen and L.excubitor Adderveen / Kunstruimte Galerie Block C, Westerhavenstraat 14a, 9718 AK Groningen >
2017 Sessie #5: Botanische verkenningen / with Sibylle Eimermacher and L. excubitor Delleboersterheide / Kunstruimte Hiemstra, Oosterwoldseweg 17, 8421 RR Oldeberkoop >
2017 Sessie #4: (Ver)handeling / with Sibylle Eimermacher and L. excubitor Delleboersterheide / Kunstruimte Hiemstra, Oosterwoldseweg 17, 8421 RR Oldeberkoop >
2017 Sessie #3: Opstelling / with Sibylle Eimermacher and L. excubitor Delleboersterheide / Kunstruimte Hiemstra, Oosterwoldseweg 17, 8421 RR Oldeberkoop >
2017 Sessie #2: Waarom en Wie / with L. excubitor Delleboersterheide / Kunstruimte Hiemstra, Oosterwoldseweg 17, 8421 RR Oldeberkoop >
2016 Book Launch Identities (Introduction by Tijs Goldschmidt) / Johan Deumens Gallery, Westerdok 782, 1013 BV Amsterdam >
2016 Amsterdam Art Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery / Museumplein Pavillions, Museumplein, Amsterdam
2016 Sessie #1: Speelveld / with Sibylle Eimermacher and L. excubitor Delleboersterheide / Kunstruimte Hiemstra, Oosterwoldseweg 17, 8421 RR Oldeberkoop >
2015 Sequence 1 – Dutch artist’s books in an international context / curators: Barthold Boksem, Rein Jelle Terpstra and Henk Woudsma / with Abramovic & Ulay, Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Melanie Bonajo, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Eijkelboom, Michael Gibbs, Tim Hollander, Sol LeWitt, Mark Manders, Ed Ruscha, Seth Siegelaub, Elisabeth Tonnard, Hans de Vries, Hans Waanders, Lawrence Weiner, Luuk Wilmering and 44 other artists / Information: Sequence_1_Dutch_Artists_Books 2015.pdf / Groninger Museum and Academy Minerva for Fine Arts & Design, Praediniussingel 59, 9711 AG Groningen >
2015 Editions Artists’ Books Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery & CTL Presse / Waterfront New York Tunnel, 269 11th Avenue, New York NY, Verenigde Staten
2015 Wiels Art Book Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery / Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Vorst, België
2015 Amsterdam Art Fair /Johan Deumens Gallery / Kunsthal Citroën, Stadionplein 24, 1076 CM Amsterdam >
2015 LA Art Book Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery / Geffen Contemporary MOCA, 152 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Verenigde Staten
2014 Repetition as an ongoing state of change / Reframing extant material / curator: Johan Deumens / with Laurence Aëgerter, Annesas Appel, John McDowell, Anne Geene, Information as Material, Walid Raad, Kees Visser, Sharon Kivland, Simone Mudde & Olivier van Breugel, Salvo, Andrea Stultiens, Sander Uitdehaag, Robin Waart, Luuk Wilmering, Witho Worms / De Drie Heuvelen, Herengracht 48, 1015 BR Amsterdam >
2014 De wereld in maten / curator: Johan Deumens / With Annesas Appel, Frans Baake, Jennifer Butler/Irma Boom, Anett Frontzek, Paul Heimbach, Lisa Vlamings, Hans Waanders, Alicja Webachowska, Luuk Wilmering / Johan Deumens Gallery, Gabriel Metsustraat 8, 1071 EA Amsterdam
2014 Offprint Paris / Johan Deumens Gallery / Beaux-arts de Paris, 14 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, Frankrijk
2014 Unseen / Johan Deumens Gallery / Westergasfabriek, Haarlemmerweg 4 1014 BE, Amsterdam
2014 Muotka / with Lise Lotte ten Voorde / Sign, Winschoterkade 10, 9711 EA Groningen >
2014 Encounters / curators: Pieter en Marieke Sanders / with Inti Hernandez / Landgoed Anningahof, Hessenweg 9, 8028 PA Zwolle >
2014 Zii-prrrih / Hans Waanders – Martin Brandsma / Galerie Wit, Hamelakkerlaan 38, 6703 EK Wageningen
2014 Talking Photography – PRICCA practice / curator and moderator: Andrea Stultiens / with Jellie Klaster, Marijn Nijssen, Ahmet Polat, Roy Villevoye, Dirk Jan Visser / Academy Minerva for Fine Arts & Design, Praediniussingel 59, 9711 AG Groningen >
2014 Voorkomen / with Kees de Haan van Jong architecten / Prinsentuin – Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
2014 Prospects & Concepts – Mondriaan Fonds / curator: Mirjam Westen / Art Rotterdam, Van Nelleweg 1, 3044 BC Rotterdam
2013 Verboden landschap – Absent / curators: Sibylle Eimermacher, Oscar Lourens and Jeroen Glas / Guestroom – G.A.N.G., Koningsweg 23A, 6816 TD Arnhem
2013 Unseen / Johan Deumens Gallery, Haarlemmerweg 4 1014 BE, Amsterdam
2013 CODEX 2013 – Codex Foundation – 1st Biennial Book Fair / Johan Deumens Gallery / Craneway Pavilion, 1414 Harbour Way S, Richmond, CA 94804, Verenigde Staten
2012 Invest III research and visualization – Artistic researchers and PHD researchers / curator: Gert Wijlage / with Paula Albuquerque, Ingeborg Entrop, Daniela de Paulis, Andrea Stultiens / SHMAK, Venestraat 88, 9402 GP Assen
2012 Splendid isolation / curator: Johan Deumens / with Annesas Appel, Marlies Appel, Kasper Andreasen, Anett Frontzek, Richard Long, Alicja Werbachowska / Johan Deumens Gallery, Gabriel Metsustraat 8, 1071 EA Amsterdam
2012 Identities / Kunstruimte Hiemstra, Oosterwoldseweg 17, 8421 RR Oldeberkoop
2012 Ernstig Geschikt! – Gallery Plaatsmaken – G.A.N.G. / curators: Hans Jungerius, Rob Groot Zevert / Showroom Arnhem, Langstraat 20, 6811 JL Arnhem
2012 Inside out-Outside in III / curator: Han Steenbruggen / Belvedere Museum, Oranje Nassaulaan 12, 8448 MT Heerenveen
2012 Best of Graduates / curator: Radek Vana / Ron Mandos Gallery, Prinsengracht 282, 1016 HJ Amsterdam
Commissions
2018 Design and production of a large scale sculpture and installation Larix excubitor for the exhibition B is for bird / curator: Hanne Hagenaars / Museum Kranenburgh, Hoflaan 26, 1861 CR Bergen
2017 Design of a commemorative coin – Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt
2014 Design and production of an installation Voorkomen / with Kees de Haan van Jong architecten / curators: Kie Ellens en Tamara Schoppers / Prinsentuin – Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Scientific
2021-2023 Vuistvreten / Behavioral research on lateralization (leg preference) and personality in shrikes / In collaboration with behavioral biologist and professor Dr. A.G.G. (Ton) Groothuis and Dr. Bernd Riedstra, Faculty of Sciences and engineering, University of Groningen / With the cooperation of Staatsbosbeheer Drents-Friese Wold
2021-2022 Northern Shrike – Siberische Noordelijke klapekster in Nuenen in november 1909 / In collaboration with Justin J.F.J. Jansen, Peter de Knijff, Pepijn Kamminga and Reuven Yosef / Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, NL
2017-2021 Behavioral research on lateralization (vision preference) and personality in great grey shrikes / In collaboration with behavioral biologist and professor Dr. A.G.G. (Ton) Groothuis, Faculty of Sciences and engineering, University of Groningen / With the cooperation of Staatsbosbeheer, Natuurmonumenten, It Fryske Gea, Het Drents Landschap
2016 Pilot Behavioral research on lateralization and personality in great grey shrikes / In collaboration with behavioral biologist and professor Dr. A.G.G. (Ton) Groothuis, Faculty of Sciences and engineering, University of Groningen / With the cooperation of Staatsbosbeheer, Natuurmonumenten, It Fryske Gea, Het Drents Landschap
2015 Research on asymmetry/symmetry and fitness, condition of shrikes (using ptilochronology) from the collection Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden / In collaboration with Prof. Reuven Yosef, Pjotr Tryjanowski, Anna Kubicka, Pepijn Kamminga, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, NL and Life Science University in Poznan, PL
Talk – Interview – Media (selection)
2024 Inhale-Exhale / about ‘Vogeltaal’ in collaboration between Into Nature, Stichting K & C (Hellen Abma) and Kuunst.nu / 22 april / Het Rode Hert, Hoofdstraat 32, 9315 PB, Roderwolde
2024 Monumentaal geduld / with Rob Buiter / Vroege Vogels NPO Radio 1 / Drents-Friese Wold >
2023 Dit is de grens (This is the Boundary) / Moderator: Lieneke Hulshof, Speakers: Tijs Goldschmidt, Xander Karskens en Martin Brandsma / Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, Kerkpad 1, 6321 PX Wijlre >
2022 De wereld als dierentuin; waarnemen tot kunst verheven / Moderator: Kees Foekema / Speakers: Tijs Goldschmidt, Thijs de Zeeuw, Gemma Venhuizen, Martin Brandsma / An evening in cooperation with Singel Publishers focusing on Tijs Goldschmidt’s new publication ‘Wolven op het ruiterpad’ / De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR, Amsterdam >
2016 De Kijkclub / with Hans Aarsman, Maartje den Breejen, Nienke Denekamp, Carel Helder and Claudia Sola / Torpedo Theater, Amsterdam
2014 Talking Photography / with Andrea Stultiens, Marijn Nijssen, Roy Villevoye and Dirk Jan Visser / Pricca Practice, Minerva Art Academy, Groningen
2014 BCP / with Jeanine Abbring / NPO 2 / Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
Publication – Article – Review – Poster – Contribution (selection)
2023 ZOUT magazine / Hoe een man een vogel wordt / Tijs Goldschmidt
2023 ZOUT magazine / Gevangen, als symbool van liefde en vrijheid / Wido Smeets
2023 Dit is de grens (This is the Boundary) / Xander Karskens and Marsha Bruinen / vormgeving Remco van Bladel
2023 Dansen als de meeuwen / Tijs Goldschmidt / Uitgeverij Athenaeum en Uitgeverij Van Oorschot
2023 Shrikes of the World / Norbert Lefranc and Tim Worfolk / Helm and Bloomsbury Publishing
2022 Dutch Birding / Siberische Noordelijke klapekster in Nuenen in november 1909 / with Justin J.F.J. Jansen, Peter de Knijff, Pepijn Kamminga and Reuven Yosef
2022 Wolven op het ruiterpad, Hoe een man een vogel wordt / Tijs Goldschmidt / Uitgeverij Athenaeum
2021 Nature Today / Is een klapekster links- of rechtshandig? / Aaldrik Pot
2018 Het Boek der Natuur / Henk Woudsma, Cees de Boer / CBK Groningen
2018 Kunstzaken / Schering en inslag van kunst en wetenschap / Katalin Herzog
2018 L’Ornithologue / review: Identities / Walter Belis
2018 A tale of two tails: asymmetry in Great Grey Shrikes (Lanius excubitor) / Avian Research / with Reuven Yosef, Anne Maria Kubika and Piotr Tryjanowski
2018 British Birds (January 2018 volume III) / review: Identities / Stephen Menzie
2017 Ornithos (vol. 24/283) / Analyse bibliographique: Identities / Norbert Lefranc
2017 De Moanne (jaargang 16/6) / Vredeman De Vries Vormgevingsprijs, Special Publication
2017 Alauda (jaargang 85/2) / Bibliographie: Identities / Norbert Lefranc
2017 Noorderbreedte (jaargang 41/2) / In de huid van het dier / Jurgen Tiekstra
2017 Poster Handleiding voor fixaties #1 (Manual for fixations #1) / Kunstruimte Galerie Block C, Groningen / Hansje van Halem
2016 Magazine It Fryske Gea winter 2016-2017 / De klapekster als venster op de wereld / Amber Boomsma
2016 NRC Handelsblad (Supplement Wetenschap / Hoe een man een vogel wordt / Tijs Goldschmidt
2015 De Volkskrant (Supplement Vrijdag Kunstdag) / Ekstercode – Elke vogel heeft eigen streepjescode / Caspar Janssen
2015 Challenge series Winter – Birding Frontiers / Grey Shrikes / Martin Gartner
2015 Catalogus Dutch artist’s books in an international context, Nederlandse kunstenaarsboeken in een internationaal perspectief / Rein Jelle Terpstra en Henk Woudsma / Academy Minerva, Groningen
2014 The Northern Shrike Lanius borealis sibiricus Bogdanov, 1881 (Aves: Laniidae) in Ukraine: a taxonomic assessment, Svetlana U. Tajkova & Âroslav A. Red’kin, Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series Vol. 183 (8): 89-107
2014 Bekking & Blitz / I am not doing anything until I feel the need / Joanneke Meester
2014 De Arbeiderspers / Het verlangen naar Klapekster / Koos van Zomeren
2014 De Nieuwe Veluwe / zii-prrrih: Vogels nader bekeken / Manon Berendse
2014 Catalogus Prospects & Concepts / Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam
2014 Groene Amsterdammer / Werken in een kunstfabriek/ Roos van der Lint
2014 Bionieuws / Tussen kunst en klapekster / Bas Leenknegt
2013 Natuur.orioles / Klapeksters; alle schoonheid op een stokje / Gerald Driessens
2013 Tubelight / Vieze knietjes / Lise Lotte ten Voorde
2012 Catalogus Inside out-Outside in / Belvedere Museum, Heerenveen
2012 Friesch Dagblad / Klapekster brengt wetenschap met een persoonlijk onderzoek samen / Marije Bouman
2012 Trouw (Supplement de Verdieping) / Elke klapekster zijn eigen portret / Rob Buiter
2012 Leeuwarder Courant (Supplement Freed) / Klapeksterobservaties / Harald Klinkenberg
Nomination – Grant (selection)
2023 Mondriaan Fonds Basic Grant
2022 Stichting Stokroos for I
2018 IJsvogel Fonds (Vogelbescherming Nederland) / Rob Goldbach Publicatiefonds (Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland) for De verschillige blik
2018 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds for Lateralization and Personality
2018 Nomination BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year for Identities
2018 Mondriaan Fonds / Provincie Drenthe / Stichting Cultuurfonds Westerveld for Archives of absence, archives of presence
2017 Nomination and honourable mention Vredeman de Vries Vormgevingsprijs, for Identities
2017 Foundation Lucie Burgers for Comparative Behaviour Research for Lateralization and Personality
2017 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds for Identities
2013 Mondriaan Fonds Start Grant
2012 Nomination and shortlist Ron Mandos Young Blood Award
Teaching – Advisory
2024-25 Advisor Mondrian Fund, Amsterdam
2019 Guest Teacher Kunstacademie Friesland, Leeuwarden
2014 Moderator Academie Minerva, Groningen
2012-2014 Guest Teacher Academie Minerva, Groningen
Artist’s book
Brandsma, M., De verschillige blik, 2022, Materials: Box: white intercote cardboard, black, grey and red paper and a digital e-book, Size Box: 335 x 248 x 100 mm, Edition: 30, Price: € 335, excluding VAT / digital: www.deverschilligeblik.nl / Description: notes of personalities from Zuidoost-Friesland, Zuidwest-Drenthe en Noordwest-Overijssel
Brandsma, M., Van der Til, J., Book XXXIX, 2020 / Description: Open Book on Facebook and Instagram
Brandsma, M., Eimermacher, S., From the archives of absence archives of presence, 2019, Materials: 4 sheets & booklet, full colour (HP Indigo 7900), Size: 297 x 210 cm, Edition: 10, stamped numbers, Price: € 120,- including VAT, Published, June 2019, on the occasion of NO TODO ~ NIET ALLES, an exhibition in an archival box that belonged to the archive of Ulises Carrión, curated by Inez Piso at Johan Deumens Archive in Amsterdam >
Brandsma, M., Eimermacher, S., Archives of absence, archives of presence, 2018, Texts: Katalin Herzog, Tijs Goldschmidt, Materials: Cover: Silkscreen print on grayboard, 2 pergamine bags with 14 pictures included, Booklets: 4 , full color, 40 pages, size: 310×240 mm, Edition: 80, stamped numbers, Price: € 80 euro,- including VAT >
Brandsma, M., Identities, 2016, Text: Tijs Goldschmidt, Translation: Sherry Macdonald, Materials: Hardcover with grey linen with silver foil-stamp, 120 pages, Size: 160 x.345 mm, Edition: 500, Price:€ 30,- excluding VAT / Description: ISBN 978-91609-09-1- Identities is a collection of morphological drawings of one hundred fifty-two different Great Grey Shrikes from fifty-seven areas in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Drenthe. These are detailed illustrations that are displayed in a standardised layout. The basis of the work Identities is partly scientific; firstly there is the fundamental phrasing of the underlying question: can individual Great Grey Shrikes be recognized on the basis of their outward appearance? Secondly both in the field as in the studio a standardized procedure takes place: the structure is created by means of through observation of the variations in outer characteristics and this is manifested further by the resulting standardized profiles.
Brandsma, M., Threat Display, 2016, Materials: Softcover with singer stitch on the back, 56 pages full color, Size: 195 x 245 mm, Edition: 100, Price: € 52,- excluding VAT / Description: The book Threat Display shows collected photographs of guards according to terms of behaviour from the Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; Vol VII (Flycatchers to Shrikes) by S. Cramp and C.M. Perrins. In the chapter ‘Social pattern and behavior of the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor)’ the author uses the term Threat Display: a display behaviour common for birds involved in defense of territory, often resulting in the retreat of the threatened birds, so avoiding direct conflict. The Latin word excubitor is given to the Shrike by Linnaeus, meaning watchman, sentinel or guard. A guard is a person posted at a given spot to prevent the passage of unauthorized persons or defending a specific place. Threat Display offers a biological view on the postures of guards and places it in a behavioural context >
Brandsma, M., Pruiksma, S., transmettre le chant de la pie-grièche grise, 2014, Materials: CD with poster, Size:140 x 125 mm, Edition: 25, Price:€ 45, excluding VAT / Description: The idea is derived from the book ‘Dictionary of the grey shrike and southern grey shrike’ (2010) where Brandsma collect, in alhabetical order, the calls of the Great Grey Shrikes (Lanius excubitor) from different bird books. The calls from the book are returned to the original sound by ‘pitching’ the spoken words 34x. The result gives an impression of how they heard and passed by the observers.
Brandsma, M., BCP (Black Code Project), 2014, Materials: Box (ICN quality nr.3/11)with 198 prints* on Oxford, FSC Mix Credit (acid free) 200 gr., Size: 430x350x60 mm. size: 430x350x60 mm, Edition: 7, Price of each: € 3.400 excl. 6 % BTW. / Description: BCP which stands for Black Code Project’ includes about 198 drawings of the tail feathers of the tail of a Great Grey Shrike that are located in several Dutch Natural History Museum collections. Brandsma draws the tails of the birds systematically. With its almost scientific collection he unlocks the relationship between appaerance, biodiversity and identity. He also pay attention to issues that concern not only the animal world but also that of human beings. Our identity is increasingly constructed and registered on the basis of printing, bar codes and biometrics. Text by Mirjam Westen, Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem / Scientists discovered this project; they found ‘data’ in the feathers about the condition of the individual shrikes: whether they are strong, weak, young or old. According to Dr. Reuven Yosef from the Ben-Gurion University in Negev, Israël, Dr. Piotr Tryjanowski and PhD student Anna Kubicka from the Life Science University of Poznan, Poland, something can be learned from the feather patterns about the fitness of the birds and even about sexual selection for Great Grey Shrikes. This has to do with the degree of symmetry of the patterns, combined with data about the speed at which the feathers grow. The more symmetry, the fitter the bird, and the greater its chances of reproductive success, is in any event what I picked up from this. Dr. Reuven Yosef applies his ptilochronological research on the same individual Great Grey Shrikes which I observed and drawn in the BCP. Ptilochronology is a cost effective tool for determining the nutritional condition of birds. The technique uses the daily growth of feathers to decipher diet and habitat quality as well as contaminant load. The growing bars are best seen under very good lightning conditions.Dr. Reuven Yosef wanted to investigate if there is a coherence between the results of his ptilochronological research and the symmetric / asymmetric patterns of the BCP. Anna Kubicka provides assistence by using Tps dig 2 program to measure these patterns with landmarks >
Brandsma, M., auf hoher warte, 2013, Materials: Softcover, black white (color print), Size: 20,2 x 12,6 cm, Edition: 50, Price:€ 45, excl. 6% VAT. / Description: Brandsma combines collected images and his own photographs of trees and belvederes. The book offers an approach on images of ‘viewpoints’ through a suggestion of coherence and sequence in the assemblage of images >
Brandsma, M., Systema mutatis, 2012, Materials: Sofcover, 37 p., Size: 202 x 126 mm, Edition: printing on demand, Price:€ 32, excl. VAT / Description: A book charting the evolution of the Lanius excubitor name; on each page there is a portrait of a biologist and / or a scholar and underneath this the name that ‘they’ had given and the date when this took place. The book starts with Carl Linneaus and ends with Lars Svensson >
Brandsma, M., T5, 2012, Materials: Hardcover 23 prints on transparant paper in passe partout, Size: 31 x 21 cm, Edition: 5 + 2 A.P, Price: € 1250,- excluding VAT >
Brandsma, M., Meeting east, 2012, Materials: Grey white paper in transparant envelope, Size: 100 x 290 mm, envelope, 109 x 155 mm, Edition: 50, Price: € 10,- excluding VAT / Description: It gives a place, time and date of/ for a meeting. It is a translation of the work meeting number 13 by Jonathan Monk >
Brandsma, M., kwieht, 2011, Materials: Softcover, 316 p. full colour, Size: 24,8 x 19,6 cm, Edition: 25, Price: € 290, excluding VAT / Description: This book shows a database of 154 observations of Great Grey Shrikes who had lost their way and have been sighted in countries where they rarely appear. These observations of “digressions” have been collected from various scientific sources dating from 1890 tot the present day. An observation consists of a date and a location. For each sighting the artist chose a postcard that corresponds to the time and location observed. By the addition of a postcard the data gains a different significance >
Brandsma, M., 11 Favourite Spots, 2011, Materials: Boxed in a black cassette portfolio including 11 photographs on silver bromide paper with frontispiece equipped with a perforation, Size: 22,0 x 16,0 cm, Edition: 1 + 1 A.P Sold out >
Brandsma, M., Steps how a human can become a Great Grey Shrike, 2010, Materials: Text on paper, 80 gr, Size: 29,6 x 21 cm, Edition: 8 / Description: Print on white A4 paper with instructions on how the reader can transform into a Great Grey Shrike in 11 steps.
Brandsma, M., Dictionary of the Great Grey Shrike and Southern Grey Shrike, 2010, Materials: book, hardcover of linen, 96 p., Size: 20,7 x 14,9 cm, Edition: 3, Price:€ 450, excl. 6% VAT. Sold out. / Description: A dictionary containing the calls and song of Shrike arranged in alphabetical order; the words originate from various literary sources and languages >
Collection
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America
NYPL, New York Public Library, Spencer Collections, New York, United States of America
Yale University, Haas Arts Special Collections Library, New Haven, CO, United States of America
SAIC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Special Collections Library, Chicago, United States of America
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München, Germany
Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Museum für Moderne Kunst Wesenburg, Bremen, Germany
Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek Cologne, Germany
Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Musée Georges Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Brokken Zijp Foundation of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liempde, NL
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artis University Library, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Triodos Bank, Zeist, The Netherlands
Chelsea College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Collection John Snijders, Durham, United Kingdom
Collection Co en Lilian Seegers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sanders Collection, Pieter and Marieke Sanders, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Collection Jo and Marlies Eyck, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Collection Erik Kessels, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Collection Marinus Augustijn, Groningen, The Netherlands